Courses
PY 320 INTRODUCTION TO MODERN PHYSICS 3.0 Credit(s)
Selected topics from modern calculus-based physics. The course provides an introduction to relativity, nuclear physics, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and modern-day climate change. Prerequisite: Take PY-152 (C or better) or PY-112 (B or better) & MA-152.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
CH 357 ADVANCED INORGANIC CHEMISTRY LABORATORY 1.0 Credit(s)
This course includes a series of experiments in synthetic inorganic chemistry and characterization of organic and inorganic compounds. Synthetic experience will include coordination compounds, organometallic complexes, and complexes of main group metals, including both stoichiometric and catalytic reactions. Characterization techniques will include UV-Vis, IR, magnetic susceptibility, and NMR spectroscopy. Prerequisite: TAKE CH-355 OR CH-356
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
CH 381 RESEARCH METHODS:COMPCHEM AND BIOCHEM 2.0 Credit(s)
This course covers professional skills needed for independent careers in chemistry, with a particular emphasis placed on topics relevant to computational, theoretical, and biochemistry. This includes instructions on searching and reading scientific literature, writing proposals and grants, developing research questions and experiments, using logic and reasoning to interpret data, ethical conduct in scientific research, and common conventions in different subfields of chemistry.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
CH 380 RESEARCH METHODS:PREPARATIVE CHEMISTRY 2.0 Credit(s)
This course covers professional skills needed for independent careers in chemistry, with a particular emphasis placed on topics relevant to preparative and experimental chemistry. This includes instructions on searching and reading scientific literature, writing proposals and grants, developing research questions and experiments, using logic and reasoning to interpret data, ethical conduct in scientific research, and common conventions in different subfields of chemistry.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
FN 360 Compliance and Risk Management 3.0 Credit(s)
You will develop an understanding of the identification, analysis, and management of risk in business focusing on highly regulated markets and emerging risk areas. You will understand the overlapping risk areas - regulatory, legal, and operational - and how businesses address these areas. You will be introduced to the compliance function in an organization through a discussion of business ethics and moral hazard. The course culminates in a series of case studies of corporate crisis events and a tabletop exercise of a fictitious event where you will navigate through a banking scenario. Prerequisite: Take FN-215
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
FN 445 SECURITY INDUSTRY ESSENTIALS 1.0-3.0 Credit(s)
This course provides students interested in careers in Investment Management with the training to sit for the Securities Industry Essential exam. Pre-requisite: FN-315 Prerequisite: Take FN-315
Offered: As Needed All Years
EC 362 MONEY AND BANKING 3.0 Credit(s)
Money and Banking provides an in-depth examination of the US monetary system using a powerful combination of theory, history, and empirical analysis. The topics covered include the history and function of money, the development and role of commercial banking, and US central banking and monetary policy. Prerequisite: Take EC-203 Principles of Macroeconomics 3
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
ED 488 Student Teaching Supervision:ug 0.0 Credit(s)
This course serves as a supportive coaching model while serving in the role of a University Supervisor. The University Supervisor acts as the liaison between the school and the university in an effort to facilitate the Student Teaching Experience for FCE Teacher Candidates. An instructor will receive .5 credits for each student-teacher observed.
Offered: As Needed All Years
CH 326 MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACOLOGY 3.0 Credit(s)
A basic medicinal chemistry/pharmacology course in which the principles of drug discovery, computer aided drug design, pharmacokinetics and protein targets are studied. Such topics as the background of drug discovery, protein structure, enzymes, receptors, pharmacokinetics, metabolism, binding, structure, diversity, lead discovery, and lead optimization. Different methods to design drugs are explored such as rational drug design, fragment based, and in silico virtual molecular docking. Virtual labs employing different software are used to exemplify the different concepts covered.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
PO 326 THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW 3.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on the fundamental questions surrounding the nature, purpose, and legitimacy of law, while also examining various philosophical perspectives that underpin legal systems. Students will study both classical and contemporary thinkers to better understand the moral and ethical foundations of law, the concept of justice, and the relationship between law and society.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
PO 334 U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course delves into the intricacies of China's domestic political tapestry and its bilateral dynamics with the U.S. Students will gain a comprehensive grasp of China's political trajectory since 1949 and a deep understanding of the significant challenges China presents in contemporary international relations.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
HS 313 FOOD AND CULTURE 3.0 Credit(s)
In Food and Culture, we will determine how people use food to define themselves as individuals, groups or whole societies. This course introduces the student to the study of food, health beliefs and culture of diverse groups in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Caribbean Islands, and Europe. We will identify the significance and meaning of food in different cultures by exploring the way that ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status and religion influence our preferences and food choices. It explores intercultural communication strategies to help the student learn to work effectively with members of different ethnic and religious groups in a culturally sensitive manner. Prerequisite: HS 308 Prerequisite: Take HS-308 or EX-255
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
WS 372 WRITING:WOMENS RHETORIC 3.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CHP 303 MRC:EMERGENCY MGMT/DISASTER PREP 3.0 Credit(s)
This course will prepare the learner to evaluate community resources including personnel, equipment, communication and financial sources to build and maintain a healthy emergency response system. Attention is given to improving emergency response skills with targeted training through strengthening understanding of public health, reducing vulnerability and building resilience. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to affiliate with the Sacred Heart University Medical Reserve Corps. Course faculty will include subject matter experts from the local MRC, healthcare partners from local hospitals, EMS, fire and police. An interdisciplinary approach to disaster management is used in the course curriculum with various roles and scope of practice defined. Participants will gain mastery of the START triage model and will implement it in theory and practice with tabletop exercises and a live, simulated disaster drill at the culmination of the class.
Offered: Spring Semester Contact Department
MK 340 SUSTAINABLE MARKETING & CLIMATE CHANGE 3.0 Credit(s)
The course covers sustainability as an evolving business practice in marketing. Students will relate the topic of climate change to the growth of sustainability and understand how companies apply sustainable practices to their business models. Also covered is how consumerism complicates the adoption of sustainable buyer behavior around the world. Prerequisite: Take MK-201
Offered: Spring Semester All Years